Habitat Archives | Hills For Everyone

Plant Adaptations: Upward Pointing Leaves

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on May 19, 2022 with No Comments

An image of a Toyon plant with upward pointing leaves and red clustered berries with the plant name identified in the upper left corner in white letters. The words “Plant Adaptation” in green below the image and “Upward Pointing Leaves” in yellow letters at the bottom of the graphic. The Hills For Everyone logo is on the bottom right and all of this information is set against a black background.

National Public Lands Day

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 25, 2021 with No Comments

On this National Public Lands Day, we want you to know that Hills For Everyone is paying close attention to the state budget and allocations we may be able to use to connect, protect, and restore the entire Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor. From the California Natural Resources Agency briefing yesterday, here is what we know: $758M available for the Natural Resources Agency and its departments and state conservancies $200M in the habitat resilience package $125M for habitat restoration in the … Read More

Sign the Petition

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on December 8, 2019 with No Comments

The state hasn’t learned the lessons related to wildfire. For nearly 15 years the California Chaparral Institute has been advocating for a better outcome than vegetation removal on all our wildlands as the “answer” to stopping wildfire. It doesn’t work–we have dozens of fires to point to as proof. On Wednesday, December 11th, CalFire will consider approving its Vegetation Treatment Program’s Environmental Impact Report. The plan is to target 20 MILLION acres of native California habitat and destroy it–in the name of … Read More

Cougar Habitat and Development Conflict

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on July 6, 2019 with No Comments

There are many ways to die if you are a cougar in Southern California: poisoning by rodenticide, collision with a car, inbreeding/genetic defects, burns from a wildfire, depredation permit, etc. The question has come forward about what we are willing to do to preserve our top predator? Would we be willing to stop building in their habitat to preserve the species from going extinct? View the Los Angeles Times article.